Book Quotes · Page 192

“I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.”

— Markus Zusak

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

— Anonymous

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

— Justin Cronin

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

— Roald Dahl

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

— Shel Silverstein

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

— Erik Larson

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

— Diablo Cody

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

— Carrie Coon

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.…

— Patricia Briggs

“Therefore books do not take the place of experience, because concepts always remain universal, and so do not reach down to the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

— Rudyard Kipling

“But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there.…

— Zack Love

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was…

— Judy Blume

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths…

— Ben Hecht

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also…

— John Hodgman

I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I…

— Eva Mendes

“I could not have written this book the way I wanted to without the insight of one such friend, Brent Dempsey. Thank…

— Julie James

But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor"…

— Augusten Burroughs

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book?…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek…

— Zack Snyder

You dont know what goes on in anyones life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a persons…

— Jay Asher

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the…

— Kenny Loggins

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want…

— Corey Taylor

On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William

— Gena Showalter

“Books are doors to other dimensions, you never know where they are going to take you.”

— F. Carod

“Books may fill a woman's head, but love must fill her heart.”

— Elizabeth O'Donnelly

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

— John Hickenlooper

“A book is like the best friend you can imagine. Once you read a book, it stays with you forever.”

— Jessica McCann

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

— Emile M. Cioran

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great…

— George R. R. Martin

“You have been called to a life of blessing, don't descend to that of curses.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

— Anonymous

“People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.”

— Clive Barker

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

— Anne Tyler

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

— Mark Haddon

The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.

— Gautham Menon

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

— David Ben-Gurion

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

— John D'Agata